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Drea

Your life just figured out how to get good.

About Me

I am a leader of men. And of women. My nails are red, and my heart is sure. I am many people's one phone call. Making sweeping personal judgments based on someone's driving skills seems reasonable to me. I am not patient, but I'm easily placated by wit.

My Interests

Intellectuals. Zombies. Hyphenates. Discordianism.

I'd like to meet:

Maybe some of you. As long as you don't want anything from me.

Music:

Silversun Pickups. Built to Spill. Regina Spektor. The Cure. Rilo Kiley. Glen Hansard. Postal Service. The Pixies. Notorious BIG. Mos Def. Wilco. The Roots. Big Star. Jay Z. Modest Mouse. The Decemberists. Peter Bjorn & John.

Movies:

Once. Chi Girl. Monday. Dogfight. The Guatemalan Handshake. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Kung Fu Hustle. The Big Lebowski. Amelie. Ong Bak: Thai Warrior. Rushmore. Dawn of the Dead. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Station Agent. Sweet Land. All the Real Girls. Ghost World. Beautiful Girls. Persuasion. Evil Dead.

Television:

Doctor Who. Battlestar Galactica. Lost. Spaced. The Office. Arrested Development. 30 Rock. Firefly. Veronica Mars. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Books:

Chris Ware. Neil Gaiman. Daniel Clowes. Dave Eggers. Dostoevsky. Jane Austen. Alan Moore. Philip Pullman. Robert Heinlein. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Milan Kundera. John Irving. Murakami. Nabokov. David Sedaris. Frank Miller.

Heroes:

veronicastanley.blogspot.com

My Blog

she just flew

"And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried,...
Posted by Drea on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:27:00 PST

the birthday book

"Those born on January 10th are realists, first and foremost, capable of taking a hard look at most any situation, sizing up and acting accordingly. Rarely prey to false optimism, dreamy hopes or vis...
Posted by Drea on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:07:00 PST

speed or crank afloat

My best friend Miranda is the cleverest girl in the world, and had this to say about my scuffle on Saturday night:Andréa Diane Clark had one hell of a Saturday night.Never knew at the outset she would...
Posted by Drea on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST

dont touch me

I posted a new blog at 2:42 am on Saturday night, then woke up in a weird panic and took it down around 7am. But fuck that game, I'm putting the story back up now because it was insane and I should b...
Posted by Drea on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:08:00 PST

cant take it away

"The world can't give us that serenity," he said. "The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our heart.""I hate that," I said."I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the worl...
Posted by Drea on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:57:00 PST

you wouldnt be able to

"You no longer live in other people's shadows nor treat other people's shadows as imaginary enemies. You just walked out of their shadows, stopped making up absurdities and fantasies, and are now in a...
Posted by Drea on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:57:00 PST

once reveled in feeling

"I concluded the book with the conviction that I had somehow overlooked something terribly important in life. I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let my crude imagination roam,...
Posted by Drea on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:51:00 PST

ill start inventing them

"I have to be more careful about my memories. I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelin...
Posted by Drea on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:23:00 PST

wonderful way with words

"I have always thought you had a wonderful way with words," he said. "You don't need to go fishing for big words in the dictionary. You are poetic, mi'ija." . . . "Well, thank you for the compliment,"...
Posted by Drea on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:05:00 PST

we got a future

"With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If...
Posted by Drea on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:30:00 PST